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From: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
To: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: http-protocol question
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:17:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGyf7-HmvvHQZkyLgKAs2rrZTTLFkBa8s828hbS9LedLNb2fWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

In Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt, there is the following statement:

"S: Parse the git-upload-pack request:

Verify all objects in `want` are directly reachable from refs.

The server MAY walk backwards through history or through
the reflog to permit slightly stale requests."

Is there actually logic somewhere in Git that does that "MAY walk
backwards" step? Or is that something another implementation of Git
may do but the standard Git does not?

Thanks,
Bryan Turner

             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-02  2:17 Bryan Turner [this message]
2014-12-02  3:34 ` http-protocol question Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-02  4:28   ` Bryan Turner
2014-12-02  4:29     ` Bryan Turner
2014-12-02  4:45     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-02  5:04       ` Bryan Turner
2014-12-02  5:17         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-02  5:30           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-12-02  5:37           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-12-02  5:33         ` Jeff King
2014-12-02  5:47           ` Bryan Turner
2014-12-02  5:52             ` Jeff King
2014-12-02 17:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 19:50             ` Jeff King

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